Council gears up for second year of Plymotion green travel campaign

Plymouth City Council is getting ready to hit the road again for the second phase of its ‘Plymotion on your Doorstep’ campaign.

Travel advisors will be out visiting local residents in the west of the city, chatting about how they get from A to B and giving advice on the different travel options available to them. People will be able to get help with planning their journeys and find out about travel incentives on offer through the scheme, as well as let the Council know what would encourage them to travel more by bus, bike or on foot.

The programme started in the East End, Mount Gould and St Judes last year and over the summer the team knocked on around 5,200 doors, had 1,004 conversations and handed out 866 bus tickets, 358 cycle maps and 559 water bottles.

This year the team are heading to the city centre, Barbican, Devonport, Keyham and Stonehouse areas and will be even busier as they are hoping to visit almost 18,000 properties.

Plymotion on Your Doorstep is part of the wider ‘Plymotion’ project, which aims to improve walking, cycling and public transport links and encourage people to try greener, cheaper and healthier ways of getting around. Now entering its second year, the project features wide ranging measures from new walking and cycling paths and crossing improvements to one-to-one travel planning advice and cycle training.

Incentives on offer through Plymotion include free cycle training for adults, personalised support with travel planning (available to businesses as well as residents), group cycling events and complimentary bus taster tickets.

Councillor Mark Coker, Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “We had a great start to Plymotion on Your Doorstep last year, with many residents telling us how useful their chat with our travel advisors was. The team are looking forward to seeing residents in Keyham, Devonport, Stonehouse, the Barbican and the city centre this year and we hope that residents in these areas also find the visits helpful.”

The Plymotion travel advisors will start to knock on doors on Monday 20 May. For more information visit www.plymouth.gov.uk/plymotion, email plymotion@plymouth.gov.uk or call 01752 668000.